The Sensory Animals of Ston Hill

Grace walked out the door like a hero, hugged the restless and anxious Majesty into her arms, and deliberately stroked His Majesty's back tenderly in front of the Earl.His Majesty was only wearing a long shirt, and his whole body was cold. Grace asked him in a low voice if he was cold. His Majesty shook his head quietly, hugged him tightly, and pressed his cheek against his neck.

The servants and guards who followed the king breathed a sigh of relief, and gave Grace a grateful look.Grace looked at Earl Arundel in protest, and he wanted to enjoy the expression on that face at the moment.

However, in the process of moving her eyes, Grace accidentally saw Alan Stone at the end of the corridor.

Alan Stone stood at the door of his bedroom, just like His Majesty, only wearing the long shirt he wore when he was sleeping.His body was standing outside the door, but one hand was still inside the door, probably still in the motion of opening the door.

Even at such a distance, Grace could still see the expression on Alan Stone's face clearly.At this moment, Grace had a strange feeling. He no longer simply hated and was angry with himself, but also felt that he had failed Alan Stone.

Grace didn't even care about Earl Arundel's expression, and dragged His Majesty away in a hurry, but Alan Stone's eyes seemed to be burned into his mind.After going upstairs, Grace couldn't bear it any longer and asked His Majesty, "Can you please let me stay alone for a while?"

He said this because he couldn't bear the pain in his heart, and he wasn't really bold.

He was far less at ease with King Louis than he had been with the Earl of Arundel.After he said this, he didn't dare to look at King Louis' face, bowed his head, and prepared to take off his dressing gown and return it to His Majesty.

His Majesty held his hand and said in a low voice, "It's cold here, you should wear it." Those hands were much cooler than Grace's, and his voice sounded a little sad.

Grace looked up at him and saw that his lips and face were paler than before.Grace herself found it incredible that he actually softened his heart, and explained his request clumsily: "I... can't sleep on such a soft bed."

King Louis smiled all of a sudden, leaned over and kissed him on the face, "You are so kind! Good night, I wish you a sweet dream."

Grace curtseyed and sent His Majesty away. During this period, she couldn't help but look up. King Louis was surrounded by several servants and guards and walked away.People in the capital have their own unique walking postures. Even the servants who shine His Majesty's shoes are dressed so well. The patterns on the scarves and buttons once opened Grace's eyes.

Grace felt that the little pity she had just had was too much, so she took it back.

He went down the servant's stairs and returned to his room. The first thing he did after entering the door was to take off all his clothes. He didn't dare to vent his anger on the king's dressing gown, so he took it off and put it aside, and then began to deal with it. His most hated socks.

The earl praised the fabric for its strength in front of His Majesty, but Grace scratched it with her fingernails, and he began to tear from the hole, tearing the two socks to pieces.

And then the nightgown, the white, embroidered nightgown with the exquisite lace trim that even King Louis had admired at his neckline, which he had torn off with his teeth.

He also bit hard on a part of the skirt, where His Majesty's hand had touched, stroking his underdeveloped organs through a layer of cotton cloth.He wanted to tear this piece of cloth apart like a piece of flesh from his body, grab the piece of cloth with all his strength, and fight it with all his strength.But the fabric didn't budge.Grace's teeth suddenly felt severe pain, and she was forced to let go, her jaw spasmed slightly due to excessive force, and she couldn't even close her mouth.

Grace stared blankly for a while with her mouth open, bent over and dragged out a box from under the bed, found her old yellow nightgown and put it on.He was glad that he didn't throw away these old clothes that he despised.

This box is filled with things that he doesn't usually use, some because he can't use it, and some because it's too precious to be willing to use——

The new cloth waiting for Sophie to make him a dress, the old-fashioned skirt that his mother left behind, the little purse that Orisa had patchworked out of rags, the stained glass beads he was going to give Orisa at Christmas, Three buttons made of colored stones, a metal button ripped from William's military school uniform, a golden badge he stole from Alan Stone's house when he was a child... soft new shawl, paper, pen, letter, many Books, broken pocket watches, used iron boxes for treating chilblain, gloves that are too small, wool socks that are too small, clothes that are too small...

He didn't wear clothes that fitted him as a child.All new clothes are repurposed from old clothes, one that doesn't fit right when it's molded, too broad in the shoulders and too fat in the waist to prepare him for later growth.When the hem of the skirt is above the knee and the sleeves are not long enough, the selvage that was locked in before is released step by step.When all the reserved fabric has been released and it is still too small, the threads are unraveled and this garment becomes part of the next garment.

Therefore, there are always only current clothes in his box, and there are no clothes that were too small in the past, except for the few sets that Mrs. Brown gave him after he came out of the laundry room.No one told him, but he knew that it was a gift from his brother.Then the clothes got too small, and he begged Sophie not to tear them down.Sophie was used to thrift, and she was very reluctant, but she agreed to him, because at that time Sophie's wages could already afford new cloth.

The Earl of Arundel said that William Ston was nothing more than that to Grace. If he really cared about Grace, he would not let Grace remain a servant.

But after William took Grace out of the laundry room, he thought about sending him to a women's convent school for education. Grace herself had a ghost in her heart and dared not go to a place full of girls.He lied to William that he likes to stay in the villa, feels at ease, and wants to work in the kitchen with Sophie, because there are many servants in the kitchen, the work is not tiring, and the salary is much higher than that of a handyman.

William was a little disappointed at the time, but he was not disappointed with Grace. He just thought that education was the best way to make a person better.Grace didn't want to go to school, so he taught Grace to read and count on his homecoming days, and after finding out that he liked and was good at math, he asked someone to bring him new textbooks.

One day a long time later, Grace laughed happily because of something, and she laughed so hard that she fell into the grass. William Ston just looked at him like that, with a gentle smile on his face unconsciously.When he had had enough laughing himself and got up from the grass, William said to him, "Perhaps you were right not to go to a convent school, where the girls are not allowed to laugh like that."

It was only later that Grace figured out that there was no women's convent school near the villa, but there was one in the suburbs of the capital, but it was not close to the military academy.William Ston made a special inspection for him.

William never made him feel grateful when he was kind to him.

Grace buried her face in those clothes and wept bitterly.

He remembered that Sophie had once spanked his ass with a wicker stick and called him an unruly little wild horse. He didn't think it was a bad word at the time, and he was elated while being beaten.But he took the initiative to lie down in front of a man, pouted his buttocks, and asked someone to ride on him.

Alan Stone said those were not clothes, they were saddles.

His favorite horse is Haimi, such a tall and strong black horse, he thought it should be a stallion at first; but Haimi is so smart, he thought it was a mare; later he went to see Its belly turned out to be a fanning horse.

The Earl of Arundel bathed Haimi himself, and only rode Haimi out on sunny days, because "horses don't like to be wet in the rain."

Grace couldn't breathe because he was so easily deceived!

He was crying so hard he felt like he was going to pass out, trying to stop himself, clutching the new shawl William had given him, thinking of his last one.

He hated dressing up as a girl and hating wearing a shawl, and Sophie embroidered an oak tree on the shawl to please him, which symbolized boys' courage.Sophie did everything possible to make him look more like a girl, and she disciplined him more strictly than ordinary poor families treat their daughters, let him grow extra long hair, kept him tidy, and made him not take big strides when he walked... But with At the same time, Sophie also turned a blind eye to his sneaky mischief. Once she held her head and stroked her hair, which was longer than ordinary girls, and said, "I'm sorry." child of..."

Grace picked up her small mirror from the bedside, saw her face swollen from crying in the mirror, opened her mouth again, and checked her teeth in the mirror.The tooth pain was no longer there. He shook the upper and lower front teeth one by one with his hands, but fortunately they were still firmly in his mouth.

Sophie said that teeth are the most precious. If they are lost, they will be gone, and new ones will not grow.

Sophie also said that anyone will stumble, just get up and keep going.

Grace wiped her face in the mirror, determined to listen to Sophie, because Sophie was always right.